How common is the surname Mertz?

7,841 people in the United States had the surname Mertz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,376 Americans. It ranked 4,521st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mertz?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mertz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Mertz?

Barbara Mertz, American novelist and Egyptologist (1927–2013), followed by Rémy Mertz.

Where is the surname Mertz most common?

Wikidata records people named Mertz in the United States, Belgium and Switzerland.

Is the surname Mertz getting more or less common?

More common. 7,805 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,841 in 2010, up 0.5%.

The surname Mertz

A surname, carried by 7,841 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mertz is more common than 97.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,841 people named Mertz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,376 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 7,805.

#4,521

rank among US surnames

7,841

people in 2010

2.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #4,209)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,512	Hyland	7,862	39,271
#4,513	Lemaster	7,858	39,291
#4,514	Ballew	7,857	39,296
#4,515	Riordan	7,848	39,341
#4,517	Volpe	7,847	39,346
#4,518	Conlon	7,845	39,356
#4,519	Servin	7,842	39,371

Who is named Mertz

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Mertz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Mertzs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Barbara Mertz
American novelist and Egyptologist (1927–2013)
Rémy Mertz
Belgian cyclist, born 1995
Xavier Mertz
Antarctic explorer, mountaineer and skier (1882-1913)

Notable Mertzs come mostly from the United States (1), Belgium (1) and Switzerland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mertz

Mertz has the Soundex code M632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M632.

Questions

How common is the surname Mertz?: 7,841 people in the United States had the surname Mertz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,376 Americans. It ranked 4,521st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mertz?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Mertz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Mertz?: Barbara Mertz, American novelist and Egyptologist (1927–2013), followed by Rémy Mertz.
Where is the surname Mertz most common?: Wikidata records people named Mertz in the United States, Belgium and Switzerland.
Is the surname Mertz getting more or less common?: More common. 7,805 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,841 in 2010, up 0.5%.